From Two Suitcases to Ten Years
Photo: Manly, June 2016. Our first week in Australia. This Saturday marks exactly ten years since we landed in Australia. A few days earlier we’d…
Most Enterprise Complexity Exists Because Software Was Dumb
I was listening to The Diary of a CEO podcast this morning on my dog walk, where Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer of Google…
- Travel | Career | Mindset | Motivation
Twenty Years Abroad: What Happens When “Two Years” Becomes a Life
Twenty years after leaving the UK for what was meant to be a two-year adventure, I reflect on the trade-offs of living abroad, from Bermuda to Sydney.
Views on the SaaSpocalypse: Lessons from a Sheep Called Dolly
Today is 23 February, 2026. On this day in 1997, Dolly the sheep was announced to the world. She had actually been created earlier at…
Now Or Never: A Blueprint for Rebuilding Australian Rugby
I am a British expat who came to Australia with England as my team. Somewhere along the way, I became an unexpected Wallabies fan. Fifteen…
Australia’s Productivity Crisis: The Billion-Dollar Flaw in Federation
Australia is facing a productivity crisis, and part of the problem lies in a federation model designed in 1901 that no longer fits the nation we have become. Duplication across states in IT, housing, and approvals is costing us billions every year. We would never accept this level of overhead in business, why should we in government?
Salesforce in Crisis? CRM Exposed in the Age of AI
Salesforce faces stock dips, layoffs, and doubts over Agentforce adoption, but CRM isn’t dead. The real challenge is exposed: dirty data, old orgs, and unclear strategies. Learn why clean data, orchestration, and a layered approach across customers, partners, and builders are the key to surviving the Age of AI.
- Business | Career | Management | Technology
Filtered Out: How AI Decides You’re Too Old for the Job
Ageism is the one bias none of us can avoid. It shows up in restructures, where experience is traded out for cost savings. Now it’s being automated, with AI quietly rejecting older candidates before a human even sees their CV. The irony is that every leader applauding this ‘efficiency’ will one day face the same system themselves.
- Sales | Career | Management | Motivation | Technology
From Alliances to Enterprise Sales: Why I Came Back to the Front Line
Most mornings, I’m the first one up. I feed the dogs, make myself a coffee, and sit down for a few quiet minutes before the…
🐟 Pacific Blue-Eyes, AI, and the Over-Engineering Trap
I stumbled across a beautifully simple idea the other day: placing native fish like Pacific Blue-eyes into rain barrels that collect overflow from water tanks…
